Here’s Hoping For a Good Year in Kindergarden

We had Seporah’s IEP (Individualized Education Plan) meeting today for school. It went about how Steven and I had expected. Seporah’s progressing well, but still behind in some areas including speech and socially. The plan for next year is Seporah will go into a regular Kindergarden for most of the day and have a helper during that time and then go to Special Education about 2 hours a day for language arts/speech and math. The helper will be there in the classroom, but not right next to her holding her hand and such. Which is good because we don’t want her to develop a dependence on someone else.

We just found out her teacher is not returning to the school next year due to family issues. We’re really sorry to see her go especially since she’s been so great with Seporah, but we do understand that family comes first. She really is a wonderful teacher and Steven and I feel quite blessed that Seporah was placed in her class. When we first realized Seporah needed more attention than we could give her and the most likely place she was going to get it was Hawaii’s public school system, we were worried. Hawaii’s public school system is dead last in the nation. But thankfully it has been a very positive experience and we can see significant growth in Seporah over the last year. Growth that I’m sure would not have happened had we not had her in school.

Civilian Doctors are a 1000% improvement over their military variety

Märia would probably disagree with me though.  She works with military doctors every day and the ones that she works with are probably way better than the ones I ever saw.  It is probably because her docs are working with kids while my docs worked with active duty military all day.

In any case, I saw my first civilian doctor yesterday due to a month long case of horrible wheezing after what Märia called 5 days of pneumonia.  I also wanted to ask about my right knee which has been swollen and numb for about a month.  Of course as soon as I get to the doctor’s office my lungs sound perfect, more than perfect.  It was a little annoying but nice.  My knee though… They decided to take a big needle to it and pull out whatever was inside.  They told me to hope for whitish/clear liquid, but it was possible they would get out yellow pussy liquid.  If it was pussy it was infected, but if it was clear then the infection had passed but the water needed to be drained.  Well, we didn’t get either of those options.  We got 7 cc’s (that’s way more than you think it is!) of bloody fluid.  My knee immediately felt better, not numb anymore.  But they didn’t know why it came out so bloody, so it is being sent off for tests to see if there is an infection or what is going on with it.  Sad thing is I woke up this morning and my knee is about half as bad as it was anyway.  The swelling over the top of it is coming back super fast.

I haven’t posted about weight loss recently but that doesn’t mean I gave up or anything.  It is just slow going.  It has been 40 days today since my first personal weigh in when I really started trying to lose weight and I have lost 14 lbs.  My chart is still available here and I will attach a chart at the bottom of this post.

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The doctor’s office is a madhouse!

I hate giving out unneeded information. I appreciate my privacy and it drives me nuts how much is asked of people and how easily they give it out. i just finished filling out the new patient information and under the “emergency contact” information they wanted my wife’s social security insurance number, her work information and her drivers license number! Of course I only gave them name, number and address and that only grudgingly.

Sent on the go from my Peek

People search for the darndest things…

In the past I have asked where people were watching from, with some very fun results.  Today I will tell you what visitors were searching for when they stumbled upon RushingAround.  Again, very interesting…

    eas tracker (most searched for term leading to RushingAround!)
    rushing around
    “frozen yogurt”
    “what does a mormon look like”
    anticontraction medicine
    ants coming out of laptop
    ants in my laptop, now what?
    bic-ing your hair
    civilians running from godzilla
    curious george persona for firefox
    dad’s foot in mouth
    does felicity have red hair
    eaos tracker
    eas countdown .xls
    eas tracker with pictures
    funny family stories about rushing around
    george seems
    godzilla fruit snacks
    godzilla pez
    i can’t help myself you’re so mouth watering
    i cant help it, you are so mouth watering-new moon
    is rushing around good for you?
    jihad needs containing
    kunia tunnel
    live eas tracker
    mac laptop infested with ants
    making tough decisions reflections
    negative effects of rushing around
    preparation h abdomen wrap
    rushingaround
    sarah speaks
    shaving your head for the tsunami
    the jihad needs containing
    what does cyanotic fingernails mean?
    what hard headed people need?
    when i take a look around everybody seems so strong casting crowns
    you are so mouth watering
    your so mouth watering

My Blanket!!

Felicity has this blanket that is her blanket. It’s kind of funny since I got it at a baby shower for Seporah and Seporah hardly ever used it since it’s thicker and we live in Hawaii. I kind of wish we had a second one for when this one disintegrates, but we can’t seem to find it anywhere since it was purchased 4 1/2 years ago. It is now Felicity’s. Don’t touch it if you want to preserve your life. Case in point, this morning she woke up to a bed full of urine:

Mommy: Oh that’s really gross.
Felicity: MY BLANKET!!
Mommy: It’s full of peepee, I’m going to wash it.
Felicity: MY BLANKET!!
Mommy: It’s full of peepee, I’m going to wash it.
Felicity: MY BLANKET!!
Mommy: You don’t get a choice, it’s gross.
Felicity: MY BLANKET!!

I won BTW. It’s currently in the washer, she’ll be without it for another hour or so. According to her I’m the devil in pajamas right now.

Yogurt Bars

So there’s these restaurants that have popped up all over Hawaii, YogoCrazy, Yogurt Mama’s, Menchie’s and some others I can’t remember. What they are are these build your own yogurt bars (I don’t think I’ve talked about them before if I have just skip to the video). There’s usually 15-30 different flavors of soft serve frozen yogurt and 30-40 toppings that you can mix all together. Delious. Steven almost always picks plain vanilla with no toppings (I know, I know, I’m working on him), but today he went out on a limb and got chocolate with no toppings (told you I was working on him). The girls get as many as I’ll let them and then drizzle it with either m&m’s or rainbow sprinkles. I like strawberry yogurt, taro yogurt and cheesecake chunks or I also like strawberry yogurt, mango yogurt with strawberry and mango chunks mixed in. Yum. Anyways the girls LOVE it. They call them The Ice Cream Shop. Everyone I’ve talked to who’s not in Hawaii says they’ve never heard of it, so now I’m asking is there a Menchie’s where you live?